Lenin, Stalin, and Hitler: The Age of Social Catastrophe
- ISBN-10
- 1400040051
- ISBN-13
- 9781400040056
- Category
- Political Science
- Pages
- 696
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2007
- Publisher
- Alfred a Knopf Incorporated
- Author
- Robert Gellately
Description
A study of the political and social upheavals that rocked Europe between 1914 and 1945 focuses on the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany and on the dictatorships of Lenin, Stalin, and Hitler, revealing the similarities and differences among the three, the conflict between Communism and Nazism, and their repercussions in terms of the horrors and genocide of World War II. 30,000 first printing.
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